Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-01-27

In baggage car near Altoona, Pa; recent
~, blowing the roof Of. The baggage ,Aan
was quite serieuslr skjured. The OWNER OF
The sriksatk Was arrested.
An abortive attempt to rob train on the
Chicago Il Alton near Independence, Mo-;
took place on the night ef the 18th; :,
Tns Secretary VI tie Treasury has modi-
he'd the existing regulations 50 as to allow
free entry of naturally frozen fish, imported
in the condition in which they are caught,
without having been sailed or otherwise
TnE French steamer Gironde, which ar
fived home from Buenos Ayres on the 10th,
had two cases of cholera ON board:
A D1spArcn from Pehiehe. sne's; says
that the steamer brentford, from Newport
70 Malta, has been wrecked and all on
board but one were lost.
NOTICES publicly posted. inviting re-ssrs
qualified to art as 0verseers of military
transports to offer themselves for employ
ment by the Government in that capacity,
caused quite q scare on the Vienna Bourse
recently.
THE lower house Of the i}lihois Assembly
has nassed = bill appropriating $4,000 for
the erection Of a monument to General John
A. Logan at Chicago.
"DoC" LEVI WILSON lMoen's terme'itesl
was arrested at Providence, H. L., the other
day OF. complaint of his father-in-law, Mr..
Caleb Farnum. Mr.. Farnum was Wilson's
bondsman in a suit brought against him for
seduction, the case being an old ones MI.
Farnum believed that he had found 6ts the
true character of Wilson, and that he was
intending to leave the State.
ONE of the large grain elevator boilers of
Newport News, Va, exploded recently,
tearing the brick boiler-house to pieces.
Samuel Robinson, assistant fireman, was
killed; W. McRae, fireman, was terribly
scalded, and David Scott, Richard Jordan
and William Narcese, colored laborers, were
badly burned.
IT is reported that tho German Govern
ment confscates the property Of and con-
demns to prison by default all the residents
of Alsace- Lorraine who evade the conscrip-
ton by emigrating.
Two heavy ice gorges, each two miles long
and from five to twelve feet high were re-
Gently reported on the Monongahela river,
between Monongahela City and Elizabeth,
Pa. The water had backed up, and for a
time the bottom lands in the surrounding
country were threatened with inundation.
A SPECIAL from Ottawa, Can, says: ''Of-
ficials of the Fisheries Department look on
the Fisheries bill as game of bluff. They
say it is poor return for six months free
use of the Canadian fisheries under prom
ise Of the President Of the United States
that the fisheries commission would be ap-
pointed at the next meeting of Congress,
which promise has not been carried out"
AsTRoLOGER DE LEON has been convicted
at New York of sending girls to Panama for
immoral purposes. The case excited consid-
cradle interest some time ago on its publica-
ton.
Four Pinkerton detectives have been ar
rested for killing boy named Hogan at
Jersey City, N. j., recently. The detectives
fired into crowd who were jeering them.
ORDERS have been issued in Russian Po-
land forbidding the expectation of horses
to Austria or Prussia.
New ZEALAND has annexed the Kermadre
Islands in the South Pacific.
THREE men were seriously scalded at
Lincoln, ILL.,, recently by vat Of hot soap
grease suddenly opening upon them.
THE New Westminster (B. c. Hotel
burned the other morning, catching fire in
an unknown place. It was so quickly con-
sumed that three guests were burned to
death.
JUDGE SCOTT, of st. Clair County, Mo-,
the fugitive from United States Court pro-
cess servers, has been captured by Deputy
Marshal Willis. The Judge had been in
hiding several months, the people being in
hearty. sympathy with him in his refusal to
make tax levy to satisfy the fraudulent
Tebo Il Neosho railway bonds issued in
1868.
Four hundred employees of the Universal
Rubber Company at Jersey City, N. j.,
struck on the 21st.
JAMES BURKE, roller employed at the
Columbia rolling-mill, Lancaster, Pa, fell
into the rolls the other day and was drawn
through twice. He received terrible in
juries and died soon afterwards.
THE dead body of man named Brown, a
logger, was found under the ice in the
slough at Alton, Ill, recently. He had been
missed for two or three days.
JOHN PATTON, JR., & Co., of London,
owners of the Monarch line, have failed.
j. B. BUTTON, postmaster of Augusta,
Wis, has been arrested for short accounts
MUCH uneasiness is expressed over the
appearance of smallpox in New York.
REPORTS show that all the missing fisher
men who were supposed to have been lost
by the breakup of lake ice near Buffalo, N.
Y, recently reached shore in safety. Some
had very narrow escapes.
THE Goodyear rubber glove factory at
Waterbury, Conn.,, has closed down for
want of coal One thousand hands are
thrown out.